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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program

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U.S. workplace deaths remain a public health crisis, with over 5,000 annual fatalities concentrated in high-risk sectors like construction, transportation, and agriculture. To address this under the OSH Act, NIOSH runs the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program, a non-regulatory initiative providing safety guidance through independent, non-enforcement investigations. Structurally, FACE operates as a unified effort split into two distinct, complementary branches: a centralized, national In-House program run directly by NIOSH, and a decentralized network of State FACE programs funded via cooperative agreements. While both share common goals and methods, they differ significantly in their organizational structure, authority, influence, and how they implement findings locally across diverse regional industries. Together, they generate extensive prevention resources and adapt to emerging workplace hazards.

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  • Journeyman Roofer Dies From 12FootFall From Ladder
    Journeyman Roofer Dies From 12-Foot-Fall From Ladder
    Ray, Thomas D. ;
    Roberts, Daryl W.
    1993/05/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 30, 1993 a 35-year-old journeyman roofer fell 12 feet from a metal and fiberglass extension ladder. The victim and a co-workers were finishing up the job-site after replacing the roofing material of a bank building. The workers separated an extension ladder into two halves. The lower section, with proper feet attached was positioned aga ...
  • Cranberry Farm Worker Dies of Injuries Sustained From A Fall Through a Sluice Gate Cover
    Cranberry Farm Worker Dies of Injuries Sustained From A Fall Through a Sluice Gate Cover
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/05/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 23, 1992, a 60-year-old male water foreman was critically injured after falling approximately three feet through a sluice gate cover. The incident occurred at a cranberry farm while the worker was standing on top of a sluice gate that controls the flow of water into the cranberry bogs. As the worker was using a gate hook to open the gate, t ...
  • Plumber Dies After Falling 13 Feet Into A Stairwell While Repairing a Pipe
    Plumber Dies After Falling 13 Feet Into A Stairwell While Repairing a Pipe
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/05/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On October 1, 1992, a 41-year-old male plumber was fatally injured after a 13 foot fall into a stairwell. The incident occurred at a large resort hotel while the victim was repairing a leaking water pipe located above the ceiling in a stairwell. After climbing a scaffold to reach the ceiling, the victim was sitting on a large adjacent pipe when he ...
  • Dockman Drowns After Falling Off Pier into Water
    Dockman Drowns After Falling Off Pier into Water
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/05/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On the evening of November 28, 1992, a 58-year-old dock worker fell from a pier into a large river that divides two states. He had untied most of the lines that secured a barge to the dock when he was witnessed to fall from the pier into the water. His body was found the next day. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar ...
  • ForemanSkidder Operator Killed by Falling Tree West Virginia FACE 9313
    Foreman/Skidder Operator Killed by Falling Tree - West Virginia: FACE 93-13
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/05/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 51-year-old male foreman/skidder operator who was killed after being struck by a falling tree was examined. The tree had been felled by another worker in the vicinity. At the time of the incident, the victim was working for a small logging company that had been operating for 10 years and had six employees. The victim had 12 years of l ...
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  • Store Manager Killed by Robber in Wyoming
    Store Manager Killed by Robber in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1993/05/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 25, 1992, the manager of a grocery store had unlocked and entered his store alone, when he was confronted by a person who had entered the building overnight through a roof opening and was in the process of robbing the grocery. During the confrontation, the robber allegedly stabbed the store manager and escaped. Employers may be able to ...
  • Massachusetts Trash Collection Company Operations Manager Dies When Crushed between Conveyor Truck and Dumpster
    Massachusetts Trash Collection Company Operations Manager Dies When Crushed between Conveyor Truck and Dumpster
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1993/05/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 15, 1992, a 45 year-old male off-duty municipal firefighter was crushed to death while employed in a supplemental occupation as a trash collection operations manager. In the process of loading a trash dumpster onto a parked conveyor truck, the victim was pinned between the conveyor truck and the dumpster. He was transported to a region ...
  • The Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology FACE Experience in Colorado
    The Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology (FACE) Experience in Colorado
    Hoffman R ;
    McCammon, Jane B.
    1993/05/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Objectives: To establish an investigation program aimed at reducing occupational fatalities in Colorado. Methods: Cooperative agreements with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), and Colorado Workers Compensation system, linked with review of state death certificates and rep ...
  • Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology FACE Expansion of a Successful Model for the Surveillance Investigation and Prevention of Occupational Fatalities
    Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology (FACE): Expansion of a Successful Model for the Surveillance, Investigation, and Prevention of Occupational Fatalities
    Casini, Virgil J. ;
    Helmkamp JC
    1993/05/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Objectives: To describe a model of national fatal occupational injury surveillance, investigation, and prevention and its potential for implementation in other countries. Methods: The FACE program, consisting of 10 volunteer states and 9 federally funded states, uses the traditional epidemiologic agent-host-environment model to accurately describe ...
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  • Tree Feller Crushed by Dislodged Tree South CarolinaFACE 9301
    Tree Feller Crushed by Dislodged Tree - South Carolina:FACE 93-01
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/05/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 53-year-old male tree feller who was fatally crushed by a falling tree was described. The tree feller worked for a small logging company which had been subcontracted to clearcut a 20-acre tract of mixed timber for pulpwood and saw timber. The company did not have a safety policy, safety program, or basic safe work procedures. Informal ...
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  • Grain Elevator Owners Son Dies After Being Engulfed in a Corn Bin
    Grain Elevator Owner's Son Dies After Being Engulfed in a Corn Bin
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1993/04/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 32-year-old son (victim) of a grain elevator owner died from asphyxiation after being engulfed in a corn bin containing approximately 60,000 bushels of corn. The corn was being transferred to another bin, and the auger was in operation at the time of the incident. The victim, despite warnings from elevator employees, apparently entered the bin to ...
  • Farmer Dies After Falling from the Top of a Silo
    Farmer Dies After Falling from the Top of a Silo
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1993/04/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 61-year-old male farmer (victim) died of injuries he received after falling approximately 50 feet from the top of a silo. He was, presumably, preparing the silo for filling and had ascended it, by means of a caged ladder, to open some hatches at its top. Fall protection was not being used by the victim at the time of the incident, and there were ...
  • Construction Laborer Dies from Burns Received when Scalding Hot Water Floods Sewer
    Construction Laborer Dies from Burns Received when Scalding Hot Water Floods Sewer
    Ray, Thomas D. ;
    Roberts, Daryl W.
    1993/04/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A construction laborer died from the thermal burns received when a sewer he was working in flooded with scalding hot water. Upstream a wood and sandbag bulkhead gave away allowing the water to flood the 2.5 by 3.5 foot sewer line where the victim and two co-workers were working. The rush of water washed the men nearly two blocks downstream where th ...
  • Equipment operator dies after being crushed by a beam during a demolition operation in California
    Equipment operator dies after being crushed by a beam during a demolition operation in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 27-year-old Hispanic male Equipment Operator (victim) died after being crushed by a wooden beam and falling approximately 20-30 feet from a bucket (4 in 1 bucket with a 2 yd. capacity), which was being elevated by a front-end loader in a demolition operation. The victim had just removed several bolts from a wooden beam when the incident occurred. ...
  • Electrician was electrocuted while doing repair work on a restaurant freezer in California
    Electrician was electrocuted while doing repair work on a restaurant freezer in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 40-year-old white male electrician (victim) was electrocuted while repairing a 3-door freezer in a restaurant. The victim was in the process of doing repair work on the freezer when he came in contact with a live wire. The wire was not grounded properly due to a short in the freezer circuit. The victim was not wearing any personal protection equi ...
  • Maintenance Laborer Electrocuted During Renovation of an Office Building in California
    Maintenance Laborer Electrocuted During Renovation of an Office Building in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 27-year-old Hispanic male maintenance laborer was electrocuted while doing renovation work in an office building. The victim was removing ceiling tiles and trying to cut an electrical wire when the incident occurred. The victim was electrocuted when both hands made contact with a dangling electrical wire (120 volts). At the time of contact the vi ...
  • Pipe fitter electrocuted when closing metal gates at construction site in California
    Pipe fitter electrocuted when closing metal gates at construction site in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 30-year-old white male pipefitter (victim) was electrocuted while closing a steel chain link gate at a construction site. The victim was leaving the premises at the time of the incident and was not wearing any personal protection equipment (PPE) other than work boots. An office/trailer which had been used by the construction crew as an office was ...
  • Apprentice roofer falls nine feet from roof and dies in California
    Apprentice roofer falls nine feet from roof and dies in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 3, 1992, a 34-year-old Hispanic male apprentice roofer (victim) died after falling nine feet from a roof which was being renovated. The victim was in the process of taking a hammer up to a co-worker when the incident occurred. He was wearing ordinary street shoes which caused him to slide down the roof about ten feet falling nine feet ...
  • Laborer dies after inhaling fumes and drowning in California
    Laborer dies after inhaling fumes and drowning in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 20-year-old male Hispanic laborer (victim) died after inhaling trichloroethane and drowning. A tote bin is a fiberglass container which measures 65-inches in height and 45 inches in diameter, with an opening on top measuring 18 inches in diameter. A valve at the outside bottom of the bin allows the water and glue to flow out into the drain. This ...
  • Roofer electrocuted after falling on power lines in California
    Roofer electrocuted after falling on power lines in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 31-year-old white male roofer (victim) was electrocuted when he lost his balance and fell on top of two power lines while doing preparations for a roofing job. The victim was in the process of placing a chalk line under the power wires when the incident occurred. The location of the incident was a private residence. There were two co-workers on s ...
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